We rented our fins for this trip from The Snorkel Store. Their tagline is “We Get You Turtle Ready” – and they mean it. They publish a daily Snorkel Report for Maui; this morning’s report said that conditions at Kahekili Beach would be excellent this morning, so we got ourselves ready and hiked the 200 steps to the beach from our resort, put on our gear, set up our cameras (I had my iPhone 15 Pro in a drybag; Diane had her trusty Olympus TG-4 camera), and swam out to the reef (maybe 100 yards from shore).
We saw one turtle – see if you can guess which photo Diane took. We also saw lots of fish; my photos of them were even worse than my photo of the turtle.
Diane’s mask started to leak, so we didn’t stay in the water very long.
After we dried out, we had lunch at Pizza Paradiso, where our lunch was brought to us by their “Pineapple Robot”.
We drove Upcountry again to make our usual visit to the Kula Botanical Garden; our previous visits have all been during the depths of winter, and we wanted to see what the place looked like in the summer. We spent more than an hour in the garden and saw just about everything.
We headed back to use up the gift cards we’d gotten as part of our Maui Chocolate tour in December. Diane had their “Maui Grown” flight (four chocolate squares, each grown on Maui, along with some Maui Brewing Company porter and some Taylor Fladgate 20 year old tawny port (probably not grown in Maui)); I had the “Dessert Wine” flight – the same port, a sherry, and a Zibbiba, each paired with an appropriate chocolate.
We might go back and do another tasting, even without gift cards as an excuse.